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ng the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

The act or state of one who sojourns.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. He waxeth at your abode here. Fielding.

19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.

harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

island or coast and leave him to his fate. Marooning party, a social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett.

A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.

hief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

rince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.

Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city. Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. Dryden. Embrace the hero and his stay implore. Waller.